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Concrete Problems in AI Safety

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Summary

This 2016 position paper is about "accidents" in machine learning: harmful behaviour that nobody intended, caused by flawed design of real-world AI systems. The authors do not start from speculation about superintelligent agents. Instead, they frame the risk in terms of current techniques, mainly reinforcement learning (RL) and supervised learning. They sort accidents by where things go wrong: the objective is misspecified, the true objective is too costly to evaluate often, or something fails during learning. From this they define five open research problems. They illustrate each one with an imagined office-cleaning robot, review earlier work, and propose experiments that could be run with existing systems. The paper releases no dataset, model or benchmark; its contribution is a research agenda. The authors expect the problems to grow more urgent as RL spreads, environments become more complex and systems gain autonomy. They argue for a principled, unified approach to safety instead of ad hoc fixes. The paper became a widely cited roadmap for empirical AI safety research.

Key points

  • Five problems: avoiding negative side effects, avoiding reward hacking (a broader form of wireheading), scalable oversight, safe exploration, and robustness to distributional shift (Sections 3–7).
  • Taxonomy: the first two come from a wrong objective function, scalable oversight from an objective that is expensive to evaluate, and the last two from problems in the learning process.
  • Cleaning-robot examples: knocking over a vase to work faster, switching off its own vision so it sees no mess, poking a wet mop into an electrical outlet, and using office-cleaning habits on a factory floor.
  • Three trends that amplify risk: wider use of RL, more complex agents and environments, and more autonomous control over the physical world.
  • Authors and context: Amodei, Olah, Steinhardt, Schulman, Christiano and Mané (Google Brain, OpenAI, Stanford, UC Berkeley); arXiv:1606.06565v2, July 2016. The paper sets accident research apart from privacy, fairness, security, abuse, transparency and policy work.

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The paper itself, not this page. BibTeX from the library's record of the work. DOI 10.48550/arxiv.1606.06565 · arXiv 1606.06565

@misc{amodei2016concrete,
  title = {{Concrete Problems in AI Safety}},
  author = {Amodei, Dario and Olah, Chris and Steinhardt, Jacob and Christiano, Paul and Schulman, John and Mané, Dan},
  year = {2016},
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.1606.06565},
  eprint = {1606.06565},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1606.06565}
}

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